If you only know subparts of a string of numbers, characters or combined numbers and characters, you can use the wildcard search. The searched part may occur at any place.
*A89*
is found, for example, 1SF A89 7102R7000.
If the unknown places do occur at the beginning, at the end or in the middle, doesn't matter. Also the number of used placeholders is arbitrary.[19]
1SF*7102R70001SFA8*102R*000
In V11, single positions could be replaced by the placeholder (?). This placeholder also works in V12, however, much more easier and flexible is the placeholder (*), as it may stand for no, one or multiple characters.
1SFA8? ?102R?000
If the unknown part is delimited by spaces, separators such as periods or characters of a different type (numeric/alphanumeric), the placeholder is not required.
By default, terms are fragmented in meaningful minor terms (substrings according to dictionaries).
With table you can also find table top without using the placeholder *.
However, you cannot find what you are looking for with Tisc. In this case, you must use the wildcard search and search with Tisc *.
A wildcard search does not use Stemming[20] is executed. * chraube only finds schraube and not schrauben. If you want to find both, you must specify *chraube*.
A wildcard search is always associated with a certain loss of performance, but it depends on how many hits there are. For example, a search for s* is significantly slower than a search for *screw. If a search for s* is carried out across a large number of catalogs, it can happen that the PARTapplicationServer aborts the search because it would cost too much performance. In this case, an error message such as: Placeholder search too general. [Wildcard search too general. Narrow down the search by specifying additional letters or numbers.] Restrict the search further by entering additional letters or numbers. [Wildcard search too general. Narrow down the search by specifying additional letters or numbers.]
